FClass<TArray<Char>> can not be compiled

[paule32]

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1. procedure foo;
2. var
3.     myQChar: QChar<TArray<Char>>;
4. begin
5.     myQChar := QChar<TArray<Char>>.Create([' ', ' ']);
6. end;

I get error at compile when using the above code.

[jamie]

TArray<Type> is a generic.

[cdbc]

Hi
@Thaddy: I think it's his own compiler  ...hence, I haven't the foggiest...
Regards Benny

[Thaddy]

what is a qchar? Benny?

[cdbc]

Hi
It's some kind of nonsense, he dreamed up last time he was smoking the big pipe 
As far as I can read of his stuff, most of it belongs in /lalalala-land/ Sorry mate, that's just my opinion...
Regards Benny

eta: maybe his idea of a managed string type, gawd help us...

[TRon]

QChar

[cdbc]

Hi
@TRon: I know, I use QT daily, but his nonsense has nothing to do with qt-strings...
Regards Benny

[TRon]

I know that the snippet still makes no sense cdbc but he seem to have been working on implementing his own (qt) classes (at least that is what I remembered from a previous conversation with TS).

@paule32:
it might perhaps help if you could express what was expected that the code-snippet would do (or is suppose to do).

[marcov]

Afaik that is fixed in trunk  . But I had it for a type declaration, don't know about code on the fly, I never did that.

[Thaddy]

QChar

Ah, I see. Why not use UnicodeChar? That is a fundamental type.
Hm, that is just size 2, - I knew that, sigh - so fails. It should be four. Did somebody complain already, because that is a bug and covers just UCS2.
But there is ucs4char. Delphi behaves the same, though.

[paule32]

I use fpc 3.2.2 for using own classes that are similar to Qt 5 Framework.
I use fpc with gnu c++ 20, to get a code base that can be use from fpc, and g++.
The original idea was, to bundle VCL with g++, to form g++ in a C++ Builder like Compiler.
But I could use Com+.
But this is Windows depend, and I am not a fan of Com+.
So I do experiment for cross-development.
You can follow the process at my https://github.com/paule32/fpc-qt account.

[PascalDragon]

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. procedure foo;
2. var
3.     myQChar: QChar<TArray<Char>>;
4. begin
5.     myQChar := QChar<TArray<Char>>.Create([' ', ' ']);
6. end;

I get error at compile when using the above code.

The compiler does not yet support nested specializations in mode Delphi. Either use mode ObjFPC, then you can do specialize QChar<specialize TArray<Char> > (note the space between the two >). In mode Delphi you need to declare the array specialization separately (that solution can of course be done in mode ObjFPC as well with the appropriate specialize placements):

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1. type
2.   TCharArray = TArray<Char>;
3. var
4.   myQChar: QChar<TCharArray>;
5. begin
6.   myQChar := QChar<TCharArray>.Create([' ', ' ']);
7. end.